Brave New World

Aldous Huxley's book "Brave New World" is an obvious critique of our wold. How at the rate we are moving, our innovations and technologies will overtake us and, in the end, control our lives completely. However, when I am asked "what is wrong with the society in "Brave New World"?" I find it difficult to answer. Their world is set up so that everyone is happy all the time. They got rid of all pain, old age, disease, and they use soma to get ride of depression or confused feelings. Obviously, we can see that we would no like to live in this type of society, because we can see its flaws. We can see that epsilons have awful, backbreaking lives and very few people can even think for themselves. We can see that they have eliminated all free thought and purpose to life. When we look at the England of "Brave New World" we see a people without a purpose. A world that is built upon the sole function of simply existing. No New innovation, no forward mobility. However, what would a person reading a book about our world see? I think they would see a world hurtling towards its ultomate destruction. Whether its nuclear war or some kind of disease our world seems to be on an inevatable path to its doom. So what would you choose, a world that exists for the sake of existing, or no world at all?